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00:00The Costa Rican side, whatever happens to Costa Rica, they're national heroes already
00:05Lightweight contenders in the heavyweight world class
00:09They've surprised a few, victory over Scotland, showing up a few Brazil deficiencies
00:14They're already history book material in Central America
00:17Unchanged then here for the third time
00:20Can they achieve the incredible and qualify for the second phase?
00:25They don't score many, they don't take many shots on goal
00:28But they work hard, they know what they're doing, and they're tigerish
00:33And they've improved as the tournament goes on
00:51The Swedish line-up, they've been one of the surprises of the World Cup so far
00:55Because they've done really very little
00:57The winners of their qualifying group, which included England, unbeaten in that group
01:01They've been disappointing here
01:02But they can still qualify if they win well tonight
01:06So it's a reshuffled team, they're going for size and attack
01:09Into the starting line-up come Glenn Stromberg, Johnny Ekstrom and Stefan Pedersen
01:14An attacker who'll be coming from midfield, as well as the giant class Ingersoll
01:19Town is injured, Limpar is dropped in favour of experience, height and pure attacking power
01:26He's 6'4", he's 6'1", and Nordin is expecting him to get going for the first time
01:47So it's Oran Petrovic of Yugoslavia gets the game underway
01:50Sweden versus Costa Rica
01:52Sweden going for a concerted attack using their size to advantage they have
01:56Costa Rica, the country which hasn't had an army since 1948
02:00Going into battle for another upset against European giants
02:04Here's Stefan Pedersen, who'll play wide on the right to start with
02:08Although he did play up front with Brolin against Scotland
02:11And there's Big Ingersoll
02:13With two markers and a sweeper at the back for Costa Rica
02:17And what appears to be about 150 in midfield sometimes
02:23So the big man already up there in attack
02:27Stromberg looking for the giant throw
02:32Sane has gone in there
02:34Flipped on but
02:36Comfortably away by Gonzalez
02:40Picked up by Schwarz
02:42Coming in for Ingersoll
02:44Ramirez is on to him
02:47Almost not a particular good clearance by Chavarria
02:53Hayaso gets a pass he didn't really want and away it goes
02:58Ron Atkinson's beside me
03:00It looks like the Giants are against a medium height
03:03And do you think that's going to be significant or not?
03:05Yes I think they've obviously signalled their intent
03:07They think the way to beat the Costa Ricans is to play a power game against them
03:10Stefan Pedersen of Ajax
03:12Into another Ajax player
03:14Here comes Ben Hussein forward
03:16Stromberg
03:18Pedersen into the hole for Larssen
03:20He might have another go
03:23And Pedersen trying a shot
03:26It's only full of fire
03:29Positive start but you've got to make sure
03:31They've got to make sure the Swedish side that they're not over anxious
03:34That they don't
03:35That's a good effort but I feel they've got to get closer in
03:38Now they've got tremendous height here for
03:41These dead ball situations
03:43Ingersoll going to the near post
03:45Ekström
03:48Over 6 foot 5, got a few of them
03:50And he almost put one straight in
03:54Kanieko
03:56Was equal to it
03:59Well that's intelligent
04:01Everybody's expecting him to load it into the big fellas in the box
04:04And he's trying to catch the key to nothing
04:06But full marks to Kanieko
04:08In the wide away corner
04:10Joachim Nielsen
04:12Again with the kick
04:15Stromberg has come
04:17Back
04:18Joachim Nielsen couldn't get that one
04:20It was a nice little touch
04:21Ramirez
04:22And bad ball
04:24Down the line for Flores
04:26Who'd broken away from the sweeper role
04:33Played wide to Stromberg
04:35Who plays very deep
04:37In the Italian league
04:38Stroking it around from the back
04:41Glenn Hussein and up and under
04:45Very important as well
04:46Although the Swedes know they've got to win to have any chance of qualifying
04:49They don't leave themselves too bare at the back
04:53Larsson again
04:55Pedersen
04:56Free of those Schwarz
04:59Joachim Nielsen goes wide on the left
05:01He can get a good crossover now
05:03And Schwarz might have a goal
05:06Good save by Kanieko
05:10Good target to hit though Ron
05:12Yeah, good understanding there between
05:14Joachim Nielsen and Schwarz
05:16Good shot
05:17But a very, very good save from Kanieko
05:21Here's another corner then to Sweden
05:23Brolin
05:25To
05:27Take it
05:28Ekström and Pedersen in there
05:31Hussein gets up
05:32But Costa Rica have so many players back
05:35Back in by Roland Nielsen
05:37Powerfully back in
05:38It's a good header
05:42Hussein gets one wide
05:44To Joachim Nielsen again and that's
05:46Deep into the terraces
05:49I do feel they're wasting situations when they get into wide areas
05:53The crosses have possessed
05:55This is the shot coming up again
05:56Good effort from Schwarz
06:00Now he's under pressure
06:03Kanieko the rabbit
06:07But he's really played like a lion here
06:10Schwarz
06:11He's gonna have a go
06:12Oh, it's deflected
06:14And it's a corner
06:17Difficult ball
06:18Schwarz has cracked it well
06:20Kanieko won't have seen that till he's got the deflection
06:23Reacted well and
06:25Here we go again
06:26Here we are
06:27Schwarz
06:28Through the wall
06:29Lads deflected it
06:30Kanieko's down
06:31Smother
06:32Fortune favoured him a little bit
06:34Another corner then to
06:36Sweden with Joachim Nielsen
06:38Again the man to plant it in
06:39Once more the
06:41Forest of
06:42Players and the
06:43Giants of Sweden
06:44The goalkeeper stays on the line
06:46And it's away well
06:47By Gomez
06:50Now Chiasso gets by his man
06:51And he's surely gonna be booked
06:53Stronberg
06:54You'll be lucky not to get sent off
06:56That's a yellow card for Stronberg
06:59Great pace and height but
07:03Stronberg's throwing
07:04Return
07:06To Stronberg
07:07On a lot of space now
07:08For Klaas Ingersen
07:10And up goes Hussain
07:12Brilliant save
07:14Jolanda Hussain looked very close to opening the account there
07:17But it's been given away
07:18And now it's
07:19Joachim Nielsen
07:20And a challenge on the edge of the area which
07:23Is legal
07:24And it's Costa Rica breaking
07:26At a time when Sweden are thinking they might have been one up
07:30And it's been pinched back
07:33Yes that was the first decent cross they put in
07:35From Joachim Nielsen
07:36A super ball in
07:38And Hussain who was probably their best technical header
07:41Had appeared from nowhere
07:43Great save by Kanieko
07:45Roland Nielsen now going forward again
07:48And surely an infringement
07:51Brolin looks as if he was impeded first of all
07:53Then
07:54Ekström
07:56So we've got two
07:58If not three players
08:00There's the ball in
08:01What a great leap
08:02And a magic save
08:04In the Costa Rica side
08:06They've been under a lot of pressure the whole of this half
08:08But still there's no breakthrough yet
08:11Larsen
08:12Might have a go
08:13Ingerson is square
08:14So is
08:15Schwarz as well
08:16So
08:17A variety of possibilities here
08:19Schwarz goes first
08:20He's hit well
08:21And it's knocked in
08:23By Johnny Ekström
08:34Well
08:35The goalkeeper
08:36This time wasn't quite up to it
08:38There's a tremendous drive
08:39And
08:40An easy side foot
08:421-0
08:43He'll be annoyed how this one goes right through the wall
08:45It's gone straight to the middle of the wall
08:46It's unsightly
08:47He's made a good save
08:48And Ekström's followed it up with a good striker reaction
08:51Watch this, straight through the wall
08:55And indeed the previous free kick had also gone straight through the wall
08:57So
08:58It's not an unusual thing for Costa Rica
09:00It's a good save
09:01His first save's a brilliant one Gerry
09:02And he's nearly saved the second one
09:08So Johnny Ekström
09:09For Sweden
09:1131 minutes
09:15At this stage
09:16They are second in the table
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10:18The referee hasn't given it
10:20Glenn Hussain must be looking up to the heavens
10:23And wondering why the hell he should play such a lunatic thing like that
10:26It looks for all the world from here as a penalty
10:30And I think it looked like that to a few others
10:32But now here's a chance for Sweden as Flores cuts out
10:36As Ekström was about to get it
10:38But they're putting them under pressure
10:40Chiasso trying hard to get it away
10:42It's gone out
10:44Nielsen throws it to Larsen
10:47There's pressure on this defence
10:50When really the talking point is at the other end
10:54A bad ball from Hussain
10:56And was that a penalty?
10:57I think that if it had gone against one of my teams
11:00I'd have been very unhappy
11:03So Sweden are lucky
11:05And Liverpool's Glenn Hussain is the luckiest man at the moment
11:09Two bites of the cherry there, didn't he?
11:11Gave the ball away and gave a penalty
11:13One more
11:14He's not been punished for either
11:21Flores trying to get it forward
11:25That could also come as a timely reminder to Sweden that
11:28There's still plenty of playing left
11:32Schwarz chips forward to
11:35Grenn doesn't get it neatly
11:38Away nicely by Montero
11:41And that's the halftime whistle from the Yugoslav referee
11:46With things going reasonably for Sweden but not 100% satisfactory
11:51But they're leading by one goal to nil
11:53The goal scored by Johnny Ekström in the 31st minute
11:56They might well have conceded a penalty
11:58They might well have conceded another goal
12:00Costa Rica are still in this battle
12:02Sweden yet to be totally convincing
12:05The halftime score here is Sweden 1, Costa Rica 0
12:10Laura Milutinovic, the Costa Rican-Mexican manager
12:15To Mexican-Yugoslav to go on the field
12:19As we restart the second half here in Genoa with
12:24The Swedes leading by one goal to nil
12:26Johnny Ekström after 31 minutes
12:28A few near misses
12:29Some good saves by Gabelo Coniejo
12:33Some good passing movements
12:35But still the game is in the balance
12:38As Stefan Pedersen gets a bad back pass to Nielsen
12:44He swings it to the other Nielsen
12:46And off we go again
12:48And if you're into useless facts
12:50This is the Swedish 31st World Cup match
12:54They've scored 31 goals and conceded 30
12:57And really they should have conceded 31
13:00Glenn Hussein getting rather embarrassingly involved at the back
13:08Ekström letting it roll
13:09But there's nobody going with him for that one
13:12Ramirez knocks it back to Flores
13:17And back to Gabelo Coniejo
13:22And what did receive glum reactions
13:27And indeed a few boos here
13:29Was the news that Scotland are drawing with Brazil
13:33Which means good news for Scotland
13:35But bad news for Sweden
13:39Go back, go back
13:43Hussein getting it well clear
13:45Chiasso
13:47Back to Chavez
13:51Forward well by Ramirez
13:56A diving challenge on the edge of the area
13:59Wherein Gonzalez went down
14:03And a good interception by Joachim Nielsen
14:09Johnny Ekström gets into a hole here
14:12Down to Mats Gren
14:17Stromberg to Joachim Nielsen
14:21Here's Gren again
14:25Schwarz the fullback
14:27Who's played more as a left winger
14:29And away Gomez comes
14:31Chiasso almost caught there by Peter Larsson
14:34Gonzalez gets it forward to Jara
14:37And that's tied it up
14:40Any change in tolerance in the Cameroons to it
14:43I'm not sure the Costa Ricans can actually do that
14:46Throw in there with Gren
14:48Stromberg to Tabuk
14:49Then Hussein is popped in there
14:51Ingersoll gets to it
14:52And Hussein's in there
14:56Yeah that's the first time real pressure
14:58Good long throw in
14:59It kept the ball in the box
15:01And Hussein maybe, maybe would have been better
15:03Just dropping it down in the box
15:04And trying for a second scramble
15:07It was never round the ball completely
15:16Schwarz pushed forward a little bit
15:18Ramirez trying to break through
15:20Help from Jara
15:21On the left hand side goes Chavez
15:23We've got Medford and Chiasso now in the middle
15:26Ducking and diving around
15:27Give them a couple more opportunities
15:31It's Marchena going forward
15:34And that might drop for Medford
15:38That was an opening for the substitute with
15:41I suggest his first touch
15:42Yes he probably was cold there
15:44Didn't expect the opportunity
15:46Nielsen and Hussein got in a terrible tangle there
15:49From a nothing key ball really
15:57Now there's space here again
15:59Larsson
16:00Doesn't look all that happy when he's going forward
16:02And is nicely cut out by Gonzalez
16:05Working very hard and now again
16:07Schwarz has been lured into an unwise tackle
16:09And Medford can get into the pen here
16:11And drive it forward
16:12And Chiasso's in there
16:13He should have had it
16:17And that was knocked out by Roland Nielsen
16:19This fellow's making the difference
16:20His pace is too much for the left hand side
16:22Good ball across
16:24So that's the early capture
16:26Not for the zone
16:28But it was a lovely drive around
16:30Down the right hand side
16:31He had time to put it back
16:33But Chiasso couldn't control it
16:35And it just goes off for a corner
16:37Off Roland Nielsen
16:39Here's the corner
16:42A few big players up
16:43And it goes off ground for another corner
16:46Anxious moments for Sweden now
16:48They really don't look at defense at all
16:52The ball's in the box!
16:55The ball's in the box!
17:22And they get it away
17:25But not necessarily that convincingly
17:27But that was a better ball up to Ekström
17:29Ingersoll
17:30Gren
17:31Ingersoll's gone forward
17:32Ingersoll keeps going
17:34A mighty figure of a Swede
17:36Against the small Costa Ricans
17:38And Johnny Ekström might be able to turn on it
17:41It's all very labored
17:42As Peterson drives
17:44Oh and they needed that one
17:46Ingersoll led the charge
17:47But I felt he should have kept running for the box
17:49The ball falls out to Peterson
17:50Who has his first real striking goal all match
17:57With all they get is a free kick
17:59And it's going to be taken by Chiasso
18:01We've got a substitution while all that is going on
18:05And it's Guimares that comes on
18:08Well he's a midfielder actually
18:10But he's pretty useful in the air
18:12So Guimares gets over the far side
18:15And there's a flick off
18:16And he's got it!
18:18And it's 1-1
18:28The big fellas at the back
18:30And up on the near post
18:33Is the equalizer
18:35And it looks like Flores
18:37But certainly the short kick taken by Chiasso
18:41Caught the Swedes out
18:43And nicked past the goalkeeper Ravelli
18:46A beautiful kick
18:48The big men queuing up
18:50But the flick early on
18:53Was just what they wanted
18:55This has been coming for some time
18:57They really are poor at the back here Sweden
18:59Flores gets into the front post in front of everybody
19:02Justice has been done there
19:07So it's a beautiful little touch
19:09And the man of the moment
19:16Means it's 1-1
19:18And it means Costa Rica will go into a very useful second place
19:24If it stays like this
19:30And now it might be another break
19:32With Medford attacking them
19:34And over the other side is Chiasso
19:37Medford going again
19:42What's happening all of a sudden now
19:44Sweden know they've got to win the game to have any chance
19:47They're committing so many men forward now
19:49That obviously there's going to be holes at the back
19:51And people like Medford and Caseo
19:54Are going to simply exploit that with their pace
19:57Well
20:10Here's another corner
20:12They've got problems again the Swedes
20:14But it was Aguero who got it away
20:16It's a hook in by Jara
20:25And there's an infringement there
20:35There's all sorts of things going on down below
20:42Here they come again
20:44Flores come to the near post once more
20:46And this time it went a little bit deeper
20:49For Quimare as the substitute
21:01Now then
21:03A bit of cover
21:08It's not going to be easy
21:11Stromberg might get there
21:13Now here's Ingersoll driving
21:15Ingersoll's there
21:16Oh just wide
21:18Good run from Ingersoll there
21:20That's what he's good at
21:21Good firm shot
21:22Not too sure whether the keeper just didn't get a hand on that one
21:25Here he is
21:26High inside left position
21:27He's run past the line
21:29Tight angle
21:31The keeper's just missed it
21:40There's a bit of space here for Chiasso
21:44And over the far side is Quimare
21:46Quimare's is in a bit of space here
21:48And there's a chance again
21:50And Jara hit the goalkeeper's legs
21:52It was a good save but it was a fortunate one
21:55And Ravali in
21:58Pogba
21:59Pogba thinks he should thank his lucky stars
22:01He's not on the losing side at the moment
22:03They're absolutely cutting into ribbons here
22:05Ball to the back post here
22:06Quimare keeps it in with a brilliant ball
22:09Nobody in the middle at all
22:10No defender in the middle
22:11Jara will probably steal it through
22:13He could have sewn the thing up
22:15Chiasso going across to take the corner
22:19While another substitution is made
22:22The kick is taken already
22:30Sweden came into the tournament in the first game against Brazil
22:33And played with little or no cover at the back
22:35And tried to play a high back line
22:38And certainly their lack of pace is going to show
22:40And there's an opening now again
22:41That lack of pace
22:42And there's a chance for them to bury it completely
22:48Hernan Medford does the job
22:52The player with tremendous pace
22:54Was allowed to go straight through the middle
22:57He kept it cool
22:59And there's no doubt about it now
23:01Costa Rica are in the second phase
23:05Watch this, watch the insurance here
23:07The ball played through there
23:08Absolutely acres of space
23:10Nearest man is the covering fullback coming in
23:13Shouldn't be allowed to run through the centre of the defence there
23:15But he's picked his spot brilliantly
23:17He's deserved to win it
23:19The ball put through by Chiasso
23:22Hernan Medford who's turned him inside out
23:24Since he's come on as a substitute
23:26Makes it 2-1 to Costa Rica
23:28They've made history
23:30Less than five minutes of the game remaining
23:33And how composed he was there Medford
23:36Just guiding it beyond Ravelli
23:38Waiting for the right moment
23:40There was no flag
23:42He didn't go that quickly
23:45Now Gren
23:46Bursting clear
23:49And safely in the arms of Canecho
23:56And Costa Rica
23:59Have recorded a sensational result
24:03They've beaten Sweden to follow their success
24:07Against Scotland
24:08They end up with four points
24:11Just look at the joy of the players
24:14And in contrast the dismay
24:17Of those for Sweden
24:21Well, Costa Rica
24:23Will go through to the second phase
24:26Sweden are out of the World Cup
24:28And they've lost all three matches
24:30Sweden 1, Costa Rica 2
24:32Join us again after the break